Hildegarde Naughten

When Leo Varadkar was appointing his Ministers at the start of this Government’s term, he had a simple message for them: everyone knows there’s going (...)

The Government believed hauliers would blockade Dublin Port in the days before it signed off on a special €18 million emergency support package for th(...)

Fine Gael’s pre-Dáil think-in meeting began with apologies from the three most senior members of the parliamentary party for the controversy over form(...)

Helen McEntee has become the first serving Cabinet Minister to give birth while in office. Ms McEntee temporarily stepped aside on Tuesday as Ministe(...)

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said arrangements for her maternity leave, which began on Tuesday, are a “sticking plaster” until a more perman(...)

The return to school of all children by mid-April cannot be guaranteed and relies on the “continued effort of all our citizens”, Minister for Transpor(...)

Groups of TDs gathered around Leinster House and the National Convention Centre for nervous conversations about their prospects, conscious that they a(...)

In his first Dáil appearance as Heather Humphreys’s replacement, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar confirmed what many were thinking about the botched delivery of(...)

The weather gods were unable to decide their attitude to the new government on Saturday. By turns they battered the national convention centre with la(...)

Eight high-profile Fine Gael ministers have lost their Cabinet positions following the carve-up of roles between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green (...)